S. Africa’s Surging Corn Price Drives Feed Makers to Wheat

South African livestock feed producers are turning to wheat as an alternative to corn for the first time in a decade after prices of the grain surged, the country’s biggest feed company said.

Wheat is being used for animal feed in Western Cape province, which produces about two fifths of South Africa’s wheat, said an official at Meadow Feeds Ltd., who declined to be identified in line with company policy. Meadow, owned by Pretoria, South Africa-based Astral Foods Ltd., supplies feed for farm animals ranging from chickens and ostriches to cattle.